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OUR INVESTMENT IN MATERIAL OBJECTS, SUCH AS A TABLESPOON. (FORM (A spoon…

OUR INVESTMENT IN MATERIAL OBJECTS, SUCH AS A TABLESPOON.

FORM

A spoon is a utensil with a small, round or oval bowl at the end of a handle.Type of cutlery and forms part of a place setting. It is used for eating and serving.

Weight: 500g

Capacity: 15ml

Machine-made spoons are traditionally made from sterling silver, nickel silver alloy or stainless steal. Thus they are tasteless or have a slight metal taste to them.

Spoons are traditionally silver, which gives it a clean and suitable appearance for its purpose. They are cold to the touch and have no scent.

Spoons are mass-produced items and don't have majorly complex and detailed designs on them. Thus they do not have any particular aesthetic qualities.

FUNCTION

Spoons are functional objects. Most people use spoons every day to eat or serve food. Spoons could also have gender, sentimental and aesthetic connotations, but are more of an universal object.

To use a spoon you need to grip the handle side of the utensil and then use the round/oval shape side to scoop food.

Spoons are used before or whilst eating. This normally takes place in the kitchen, dining room or lounge at home.

Because of the everyday use of this object, it is durable and has a long lifetime.

People eat with utensils, because it is seen as salivation and good manners. Human beings have evolved so much and it is expected of you to eat with utensils. If you don't it is seen as barbaric and uneducated.

The primary function of the spoon is to eat and serve food with it. There are a variation of sizes spoons to fulfill different secondary uses. For example, spoons are used to stir coffee once you have made it, thus a teaspoon was produced to stir liquids in mugs.

ORIGIN

There is no definitive time period that can be attributed with the invention of the spoon.

Natural spoons could be utilized by employing such things as seashells or conveniently shaped stones.

The design of the spoon changed throughout the Renaissance and Baroque periods before finally receiving its current mostly standard look around the 18th century.

They come in a wide array of variations – everything from soup to caviar spoons.

MEANING

The spoon does not have a certain meaning but is rather a functional object used in everyday life.